| SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 |
| 3:00-5:00 p.m. |
CEI Registration: Cannon Hall (see map below) |
| 5:00-11:00 p.m. |
Hospitality Room: Alumni Suite |
| 5:00-7:00 p.m. |
Dinner: Dinner on your own. If you prefer the dining room at the Broyhill, please make reservations when you check in. |
| 7:30-9:30 p.m. |
Welcome Reception: Bernhardt Room. Al Dunkleman of Cleveland Community College will entertain us with his music: "American Roots Music — Made in North Carolina." |
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| MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 |
| 8:00-9:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast and Registration: Cannon Hall. |
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| 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. |
Publishers' Display: Alumni Hall. |
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- 10:30-11:30 a.m.
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- CEI Session IA (Amber Suite)
- Title: "Teams that Work"
- Presenter: JoAnn Buck, Guilford Technical Community College
- Presider: Melissa Byrd, Lenoir Community College
- Abstract: Ask employers for a top skill that they desire in a new hire, and the answer nearly always includes the ability to work on a team. Join us for some tips for integrating process and product to help students learn how to work with others and reflect on their performance.
CEI Session IB (Burris Room))
- Title: "Writing Narrative Essays about Work: With a Little Help from our Friends Stephen King, Bruce Springsteen, and poet Darnell Arnoult"
- Presenter: Julie Trotter, Alamance Community College
- Presider: Annie Fuller, Lenoir Community College
- Abstract: Through listening to songs by Bruce Springsteen, reading poems by Darell Arnoult, and learning writing advice from Stephen King’s Memoir on Writing, all on the theme of work, your students will be inspired to channel their own vocational expertise and knowledge into writing vivid, passionate essays about their jobs.
CEI Session IC (Jefferson Room)
- Title: "Describe your Garbage: An Innovative Writing Assignment"
- Presenter: Roger J. Meyers, Central Piedmont Community College
- Presider: Amanda Fields Rivers, NC Community College
- Abstract: Utilizing unique writing assignments motivates students to enjoy the process of writing and become successful writers.
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| 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Luncheon (Helen Powers Grand Hall North: Music will be provided by Strictly Clean and Decent. Strictly Clean and Decent is an acoustic trio that features Patrick Crouch, Ron Shuffler, and Kay Crouch whose blend of brilliant vocal harmonies tops a solid instrumental foundation. They are dedicated to performing a variety of musical styles in an acoustic setting. Their eclectic repertoire includes modern folk songs by American, Canadian, and Irish songwriters; the fiery breakdowns and songs of family and home found in both traditional and contemporary bluegrass settings; and centuries-old Celtic airs and dance tunes. All of this is peppered with a healthy dose of popular jazz standards, swing and western swing music, and a few classic country tunes thrown in to provide a program certain to be enjoyed by all. |
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- 1:15-2:15 p.m.
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- CEI Session IIA (Amber Suite)
- Title: "Faculty-in-Training Programs and Succession Planning: Who Will Carry on Your Legacy?"
- Presenters: Megan Simpson, Golda Fried, and Steve Taylor, Guilford Technical Community College
- Presider: Barabara Rusher, Central Carolina Community College
- Abstract: How do you plan to maintain excellence in teaching at your college? Come find out how GTCC’s Faculty-in-Training program is successfully developing teaching professional ready to take their places in community college classrooms.
CEI Session IIB (Burris Room):
- Title: "Using English for a Career"
- Presenters: Annie Fuller and Sterling Cullipher, Lenoir Community College
- Presider:
- Abstract: English permeates every career field and will always be an important part of daily communication. This session will help us realize the importance of technology, writing, and rhetoric in the career our students will be entering.
CEI Session IIC (Jefferson Room):
- Title: "Pearl Casting"
- Presenter: Amanda Fields Rivers, Guilford Technical Community College
- Presider:
- Abstract: How do we teach students to appreciate English writing and literature? How do we teach them to integrate what they learn in their schema? How do we tie our material into other courses?
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- 2:15 -2:30 p.m.
| - Break
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- 2:30-3:30 p.m.
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- CEI Session IIIA (Amber Suite)
- Title: "Teaching English in the Community College: What Are We Doing Out There?"
- Presenters: Dr. B.J. Zamora, Laura Deshaies, Lori Sutherland, Cleveland Community College
- Presider: JoAnn Buck, Guilford Technical Community College
- Abstract: In a open and frank discussion on the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies for thinking and writing that occur in an English class, two of my former students and I will examine the issues of what it is that we do, should be doing, or don’t do in our teaching of English.
CEI Session IIIB (Burris Room):
- Title: "Getting Campus Writing into Print: A Tool Kit of Ideas for Running a Writing Contest and Literary Magazine"
- Presenters: Maria Baskin and Anne Helms, Alamance Community College
- Presider: Tom Hearron, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
- Abstract: Practical concerns for making writing contests and literary magazines a reality through planning, involving other people across campus, design, finances, and promotion.
CEI Session IIIC (Jefferson Room):
- Title: "Matthew, Mark, Luke, John . . . and Henry: The Gospel According to Thoreau"
- Presenter: Kay Gelo, Nash Community College
- Presider:
- Abstract: Through the years we have all read many Biblical allusions
some familiar and some not. One writer, Henry David Thoreau, was not only familiar with the King James Version but also had the syntax deeply etched in his mind. Let’s take a refreshing look at the wit and humor Thoreau applied to the KJV.
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- 3:30 p.m. -
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- Free time and dinner on your own
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| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 |
- 8:00-9:00 a.m.
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- Breakfast: Continental breakfast buffet in Cannon Hall.
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- 10:30-11:30 a.m.
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- CEI Session IVA (Amber Suite)
- Title: "The Joy of Getting WAC-ed: A Writing Across the Curriculum Program That Works"
- Presenters: Dr. Tom Hearron, English Instructor; Ms. Diane Barefoot, History Instructor; Ms. Margaret Hampson, Assistant to the Vice-President for Special Projects; Ms. Debbie Mitchell, Landscape Designing Director and Instructor; Ms. Linda Wilcox, Biology Instructor; Ms. Heather Wright, Information Systems Instructor, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
- Presider: Anne Helms, Alamance Community College
- Abstract: "Write On," a portion of the SACS re-accreditation process by Caldwell, trains volunteer faculty cohorts to use writing more effectively in a wide variety of courses. Enthusiastic participation, imaginative redesigns of syllabi, and improved student writing show that this effort is working well.
CEI Session IVB (Burris Room)
- Title: "Teaching Southern Culture"
- Presenter: Dr. John Beck and Wendy Frandsen, Vance-Granville Community College
- Presider Barbara Taylor, Cleveland Community College
- Abstract: "HUM 122 Southern Culture offers students the opportunity to make direct connections between their life experiences and the study of history, sociology, literature, and the arts. Through reading, writing, listening, and discussing, students can discover insights into their own experiences in a broader social and historical context and reach conclusions that are immediately applicable to their own lives. This presentation will offer specific teaching strategies and assignments from the forthcoming instructor's manual for the text Southern Culture: An Introduction.
CEI Session IVC (Jefferson Room)
- Title: "Assessment Isn’t a Four-Letter Word"
- Presenter: Barbara Rusher, Central Carolina Community College
- Presider:
- Abstract: This session provides essential tools to assist faculty inn developing and assessing student outcomes on the course level. The session proves that assessment is not solely based on accountability, but assessment is paramount for learning to occur.
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- 12:00-1:00 p.m.
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- Luncheon and CEI Business Meeting (Broyhill Ballroom) : During the luncheon, B. J. Zamora, CEI president, will conduct the business meeting. The luncheon will conclude with door prizes.
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